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Ignition · 11-02-2005, 20:32

No thanks, too many hows whys and wherefores for my liking, in theory cable wins in some ways, DSL in others, in practise it can be very different for so many reasons.

Are you just talking about ADSL or can we include fibre in the loop technologies, RSLAMs, Stingers, VDSL and the like as well?

BTW you don't have fibre to your green box you have fibre to a node which could be serving hundreds of customers and several green boxes on street corners, and actually badly maintained cable networks can show far worse noise than the inherently noise cancelling twisted pair that carries DSL.

Bet my DSL has a better signal to noise ratio than your cable, although that's comparing apples and oranges the numbers say I win. Signal loss / attenuation is the main issue in DSL due to the lack of in loop amplification and long loop lengths, that and crosstalk, not so much noise.

11-02-2005, 20:32	#11
Ignition Permanently Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: South-East London Age: 47 Services: Depends who's being serviced :p Posts: 2,588	Re: Whats the best BB option No thanks, too many hows whys and wherefores for my liking, in theory cable wins in some ways, DSL in others, in practise it can be very different for so many reasons. Are you just talking about ADSL or can we include fibre in the loop technologies, RSLAMs, Stingers, VDSL and the like as well? BTW you don't have fibre to your green box you have fibre to a node which could be serving hundreds of customers and several green boxes on street corners, and actually badly maintained cable networks can show far worse noise than the inherently noise cancelling twisted pair that carries DSL. Bet my DSL has a better signal to noise ratio than your cable, although that's comparing apples and oranges the numbers say I win. Signal loss / attenuation is the main issue in DSL due to the lack of in loop amplification and long loop lengths, that and crosstalk, not so much noise.